Manual:Infantry Manual:Equipment:IN Transport

Infantry Transports
Infantry units need to move from Point A to Point B. When the use transporters would be detrimental to the mission, the Marine Infantry has access to a series of Transport Craft. An Aerospace Transport is a vehicle designed to carry personnel, vehicles, and cargo from a starship in orbit to a single operational theater. Such a theater usually involves a single planet, its orbital territory, and any natural satellites.

T-17 Loon
The T-17 Loon is a medium transport asset for planetary operations. Its capable of transporting cargo, personnel, & vehicles. Internally it can seat 20 marines in relative comfort: and nearly twice that if the personnel don’t mind being packed like sardines. With a physical rigging system installed on the belly of the craft, the T-17 can transport any sized load up to 7000 kilograms.

The Loon has a large nacelle located at the end of each of its four stubby wings containing both impulse engines and massive thrusters. These nacelles are capable of pivoting on the axis of the wing, which allows the craft to vector the provided thrust to enable it to take off and land vertically.

T-39 Pelican


The T-39 Pelican is designed to provide the SFMC with a heavy lift asset for planetary operations. Unlike oth-er current aerospace transports the Pelican doesn’t use variable geometry impulse nacelles. The lack of this design trait means that the T-39 can only conduct vertical operations with the use of an anti-gravity generator – which are notoriously power hungry and leave a huge sensor signature.

The true benefit to the Pelican is that it can conduct combat landings with any number of first line combat forces. Able to carry up to fifty personnel or a variable number of vehicles; the cargo bay is designed in such a way that anything carried can exit fully combat capable.

T-8 Albatross


The T-8 Albatross is designed to provide the SFMC with a heavy lift asset capable of transporting outsized-cargo and smaller vehicles. The carrying capacity of the T-8 is staggering, with a maximum capacity well over that of any other comparable craft. While it can be used to transport personnel only, it is more comfortable with bulk and out-sized cargo loads. Every vehicle, fighting and utility, can be carried by this craft in combat condition; and it can even carry other aerospace craft when properly rigged. To facilitate the transport of vehi-cles and crews, the Albatross has two decks –the standard cargo deck and an upper deck for the cockpit and permeate seating for up to 100 personnel.

Though the T-8 possesses anti-gravity generators it is rarely used due to the use of its unique engine ar-rangement. Utilizing the latest in craft design, the T-8 has large nacelles located at the end of each of its four wings that contain both impulse engines and massive thrusters. These nacelles are capable of pivoting on the axis of the wing, which allow the T-17 to vector the thrust provided to take off and land vertically.

Due to the size of the Albatross, it cannot be carried in the standard shuttle bay of any Starfleet vessel; and even the larger shuttle bays of carriers are just big enough for one. For this reason, in opposition to standard aircraft construction principles, the T-8 is equipped for deep space operations and inter-system transit.